August 3 2011, 7:00pm
The only time you will see Apple make something bigger
Image from This is My Next The early iPhone 5 mockups indicate that the home button is going to be huge! The Russians used a pencil: I believe that if this new gesture region is in fact coming to the iPhone, it will be used for only one thing: switching between open apps. We can all agree that the current multitasking solution (double clicking the home button and then tapping the respective app) could stand to be improved. A left-to-right swipe would transition to the previously used app, while a right-to-left swipe would move the other way in the app history. This new gesture area would essentially mimic the function of the 4-fingered app switching gesture as seen in the iPad, which is cumbersome to perform on the iPad and nearly impossible to do on the iPhone. I hope this is true, the 4 finger switching does not work well on the iPhone, the phone is begging to be multi-tasked with!
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